Featuring pieces from

Julio Morales & David von Kampen!

Felicidad (Happiness) (SATB)
Julio Morales
SATB and piano; also SAB
Difficulty: 2
Duration: 3-5 min.
We are reminded that happiness can be found in all aspects of life, even during difficult times.

Lovely Appear (SATB)
David von Kampen
SATB and piano; also SA
Difficulty: 2
Duration: 3-5 min.
A beautiful, mostly unison setting of Gounod’s adaptation of Isaiah 52 for mixed voices.

Un Jardín, by Julio Morales
2-part treble voices and piano; also with double bass | Difficulty: 1 | Duration: 3-5 min.

Swimming, by David von Kampen
SATB and piano | Difficulty: 3 | Duration: less than 3 min.

Week Week, by Julio Morales
SATB div. a cappella | Difficulty: 5 | Duration: 3-5 min.

In the Long Grass, by David von Kampen
SATB a cappella | Difficulty: 4 | Duration: 3-5 min.

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Julio Morales is a choral conductor, composer, pianist and music educator from Tamaulipas, Mexico. He currently serves as director of the community choir program at the Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura, accompanying pianist in the children’s choir of the Sistema Nacional de Fomento Musical Voces del Mar, conductor and arranger of Vox A Cappella Band (a.k.a Vox Populi Project), professor of choral conducting in the Bachelor’s Degree in Choral Conducting of the Instituto Superior de Música Esperanza Azteca, and tenor singer for Exigence vocal ensemble and Los Bordershop Quartet. He is also Mexico’s representative composer in Interkultur’s World Choir Council. Morales has a Master’s Degree in Education and Teaching from the UTEL University; a Master’s Degree in Composition from the Tito Puente University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education from the Universidad Veracruzana. He currently resides in Veracruz, Mexico.

David von Kampen’s creative work spans a wide variety of genres and styles, including jazz, choral music, hymnody and liturgy, solo voice, chamber music, and musical theater. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Kansas, and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from the University of Nebraska. He has received multiple awards and honors throughout his career. He is a lecturer of music theory and literature at the University of Nebraska, where he teaches a variety of music courses and directs the award-winning UNL Jazz Singers. He also serves as Music Coordinator for Sanctuary Worship at Christ Lutheran Church in Lincoln. He is active as a conductor and pianist, and as a clinician for vocal and instrumental ensembles. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, with his wife Mollie and three daughters.